Bacillus species pseudo-outbreak: construction works and collateral damage
| Autor: | Montserrat Riera, N. Freixas, Lucía Boix-Palop, Esther Calbo, José Andrés Moreno Pérez, M. Xercavins, C. Nicolás, N. Prim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty Bacillus Bacteremia Bacillus sp 030501 epidemiology Disease Outbreaks Specimen Handling Pseudo outbreak Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Environmental Microbiology medicine Humans Infection control Hospital infection Hospital Design and Construction 030212 general & internal medicine Bacillus (shape) Environmental microbiology biology business.industry General Medicine Emergency department Contamination biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Epidemiologic Studies Infectious Diseases Pseudo-outbreak Emergency medicine Collateral damage Bacteraemia Bacillus spp Emergency Service Hospital 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION r-IIB SANT PAU. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau instname |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.10.013 |
| Popis: | We describe the investigation and management of a pseudo-outbreak of Bacillus spp. bacteraemia associated with construction work in an emergency department (ED). During the pseudo-outbreak period 59 out of 3469 (1.7%) blood cultures yielded Bacillus spp. versus 24 out of 7628 (0.31%) in 2012. Material, surfaces, and air samples showed environmental contamination. Cases rapidly declined following the implementation of infection control measures and the end of construction. Construction works at the ED caused environmental contamination that most probably led to the pseudo-outbreak of Bacillus bacteraemia. In hospital settings, the lack of correctly implemented effective barriers during construction may place patients and healthcare providers at risk as well as lead to pseudo-outbreaks. (C) 2016 The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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